Geography Exam Past Questions and Answers | JAMB, WAEC and NECO

Geography is the study of the Earth's landscapes, features, inhabitants, and natural phenomena. It aims to understand the locations of various elements, the reasons for their presence, and how they evolve and transform over time.

• Question 371: Tress in the mangrove forest have aerial roots because they? Options:
  A) have to absorb water
  B) need more air than water
  C) have to absorb nutrients
  D) do not require much water
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 372: One serious environmental hazard which may result from the destruction of the zone layer is? Options:
  A) flooding due to melting of snow
  B) pollution of rain water
  C) increase in atmospheric temperature
  D) decrease in the quantity of oxygen in the atmosphere
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 373: For which of the following pairs of economic activities is the Ukraine (in the U.S.S.R) famous Options:
  A) Commercial grain agriculture and livestock ranching
  B) Commercial grain farming and industry
  C) Commercial gardening
  D) Fishing and lumbering
  E) Primitive subsistence agriculture and nomadic herding
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 374:

  Which of the following is not a major river basin in Nigeria?

  Options:
  A) The Cross River Basin
  B) The Niger Basin
  C) The South Atlantic Basin
  D) The Sokoto Basin
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 375: the most urbanized parts of Nigeria is Options:
  A) North/central
  B) north/east
  C) south/west
  D) south/south
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 376: population growth rate may be define as the Options:
  A) mortality rate per unit area over a period
  B) number of times an organism occurs with a given period
  C) number of particular species per units area
  D) net rate of mortality rate per unit area over a period
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 377:

  One of the leading industrial nations of the world ranking second in manufacturing output after the USA is__________

  Options:
  A) Germany
  B) Britain
  C) Japan
  D) Russia
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 378:

  The prairies of North America are

  Options:
  A) montane grasslands
  B) temperate grasslands
  C) tropical grasslands
  D) savannah
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 379:

  The development of a climax vegetation in the Savannah belt of Nigeria is disturbed mainly by

  Options:
  A) Lumbering
  B) Mining
  C) Animal Grazing
  D) Bush burning
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 380:

  One of the following is not a problem involved in harnessing solar energy?

  Options:
  A) Poor technological know-how
  B) Adequacy of capital
  C) Unreliability
  D) Fear of competition with established energy sources
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  The correct answer is B .